JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Details

AN ARITA MODEL OF A HOUND
JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Modelled in an animated posture, head lowered, paw raised and tailed flicked over its back, with a fixed gaze and inquisitive expression, the white body covered with black, iron-red and turquoise spots
9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) long

Provenance

Freemans Auction, Philadelphia, USA, 20 July 2007, lot 923 (part).

Sale room notice

Please note that the estimate for this lot is £25,000-35,000, and not as published in the gallery guide.

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Lot Essay

The present lot may be compared with the pair of Arita puppies in the Collection of Burghley House, ref. CER0303, recorded in the 1688 Burghley House Inventory; and a Kakiemon-type dog, late 17th century in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Acc. no. 1975.268.529. A pair of Arita puppies from the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection sold at Christie's New York, 22 October 2022, lot 363.

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